Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834, Rachel E. Bennett
Автор: Peter King Название: Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 ISBN: 1137513608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137513601 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3913.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder.
Описание: During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital market. This book reconstructs that system and surveys its principal effects on the European and especially the Dutch economies.
Описание: Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
Автор: Bolla Название: Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840 ISBN: 1403920478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403920478 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Over the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and aesthetics, law and representation.
Описание: Between 1740 and 1832, England witnessed what has been called its `golden age of caricature`, coinciding with intense rivalry and with war with France. This book shows how Georgian satirical prints reveal attitudes towards the French `Other` that were far more complex, ambivalent, empathetic and multifaceted than has previously been recognised.
Автор: Hurren, Elizabeth T. Название: Dissecting the criminal corpse ISBN: 1137582480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137582485 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3913.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society.
Автор: Richard Ward Название: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse ISBN: 1137443995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137443991 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon`s knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.
Автор: Hutchinson Thomas Название: The Papers of Thomas Hutchinson: 1740-1766 ISBN: 0985254327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985254322 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8177.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Thomas Hutchinson was the leading spokesman in colonial America for opposition to the Revolutionary movement. His logical and cogent prose as well as the stature he gained through his long and varied public service to Massachusetts gave weight to his arguments and insured a wide audience for his ideas in both England and the colonies. Because of his Loyalist sympathies, however, his letters have until now languished unpublished in the Massachusetts Archives.This first volume of the only fully annotated edition of his correspondence begins with his emergence on the political stage in 1740 and covers the events of the French and Indian War, his controversial appointments as lieutenant-governor and chief justice, and the Stamp Act riots (including the looting of his own home).Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Автор: George J Buelow Название: The Late Baroque Era: Vol 4. From The 1680s To 1740 ISBN: 0333516036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333516034 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covers the development of musical life in the great centres of European music - Paris, Vienna, London and the courts of Italy and Germany. The contributions of Handel and Bach, and their lesser colleagues are set in their historical and sociological context.
Автор: S. Weisser Название: Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880 ISBN: 0333630203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333630204 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text explores the ways in which four British novelists used and transformed the theme of women`s relation to sexual love in the 18th and 19th centuries. It analyzes the moment in cultural history when gender roles, sexuality and literature met to become a new ideology.
Автор: Hampson Название: Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1597–1834 ISBN: 110800234X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108002349 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Surveys the application of the Poor Law in Cambridgeshire, from its codification to the Amendment Act of 1834.
Автор: Norris Clive Murray Название: Financing of John Wesley`s Methodism c.1740-1800 ISBN: 0198796412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198796411 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10296.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It considers the Wesleyan brothers` (John (1703-1791) and Charles Wesley (1707-1788)) Methodist movement. The volume describes the struggle between what Methodists saw as the promptings of Holy Spirit and their daily confrontation with reality, not least the financial constraints which they faced.
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